chapter 16 Sansa Sansa feels a little less alone now that the Tyrells have come to King's Landing. When a seamstress comes in to measure her for new clothing, she feels that Maegery is behind it, though she is told that it is Cersei who has ordered the new clothes. None of her old ones fit anymore, so she feels quite grateful to Margaery. Quote:Margaery's kindness had been unfailing, and her prescence changed everything. Her ladies welcomed Sansa as well. It had been so long since she had enjoyed the company of other women, she has almost forgotten how pleasant it could be. Sansa has begun to grow up in some important ways. When she compares herself to the other girls her age Quote:They are children, Sansa thought,. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were filled with songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her father's head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them. Sansa worries for her new friend having to marry Joffrey. When Margaery takes her hawking, Sansa again warns her of Joff's cruelty. Margaery tells her not to worry, and reminds her that if she marries her older brother Willas, they will be sisters. She dreams of marrying Willas, dreams of being safe, wonders if her husband will ever come to love her after she bares him children. Quote:If I give him sons, he may come to love me. She would name them Eddard and Brandon and Rickon, and raise them to be as valiant as Ser Loras. And to hate the Lannisters, too. In Sansa's dream her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya. She dreams of marriage and laps full of puppies and traveling with Willas on a pleasure barge while listening to music, and lots and lots of babies. She tells Ser Dontos that she would be going to Highgarden to marry Willas and he nearly panics and tells her that she MUST go to Joff's wedding and wear her silver hairnet. She tells him again that she has no need to escape now, but he doesn't seem to undertand. And yet, Sansa still feels threatened by Joff.Quote:Once she dreamed it was still her marrying Joff, not Margaery, and o nheir wedding night he turned into the headsman Ilyn Paine. She awoke trembling. At this point she decides to start praying and lighting candles for the Tyrells. Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell ****Tavern Wench of DOGMA, the Defenders of George Martin's Art****<i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 5/3/03 1:25:52 pm </i>
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